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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Google quietly deletes 100+ controversial sites from search results
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Google excluding controversial sites
By Declan McCullagh
October 23, 2002, 8:55 PM PT
Google, the world's most popular search engine, has quietly deleted
more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings.
Absent from Google's French and German listings are Web sites that
are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to white supremacy,
according to a new report from Harvard University's Berkman Center.
Also banned is Jesus-is-lord.com, a fundamentalist Christian site
that is adamantly opposed to abortion.
Google confirmed on Wednesday that the sites had been removed from
listings available at Google.fr and Google.de. The removed sites
continue to appear in listings on the main Google.com site.
The Harvard report, prepared by law student Ben Edelman and
assistant professor Jonathan Zittrain and scheduled to be released
Thursday, is the result of automated testing of Google's massive
2.5 billion-page index and comparing the results returned by
different foreign-language versions. The duo found 113 excluded
sites, most with racial overtones.
"To avoid legal liability, we remove sites from Google.de search
results pages that may conflict with German law," said Google
spokesman Nate Tyler. He indicated that each of the sites that were
delisted came after a specific complaint from a foreign government.
[...]
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